The sweetness of 2020

I don’t want to pretend for a second that it was great. It was full of rawness and grief and … More

Do not pass go, do not collect £200

The grief keeps on coming. Though I write from my place of privilege, of safety, it still feels relentless. … More

I can’t be alone in experiencing the coronavirus crisis and resulting lockdown as something of an infringement on my … More

Struggling I haven’t had time to stand and fart recently,and you’re wanting me to work on a relationship? That silence … More

The Schoolchildren Like leaves startled by a gust of windthey peel away from the tight-knit group,one child, two, another, more,taking … More

Simply Lit Often toward evening,after another day, afteranother year of days,in the half dark on the way homeI stop … More

Dying Nothing to be said about it, and everything –The change of changes, closer or further away:The Golden Retriever … More

Here are some places that I have been visiting recently and derived much comfort from. I hope you enjoy them … More

The washing never gets done.The furnace never gets heated.Books never get read.Life is never completed.Life is like a ball … More

Save Us From Save us from night,from bleak open highwayswithout end, and the fluorescentoases of gas stations,from the gunning of … More

I have always believed that poems come into your life when you need them most. (That was … More

My concentration has not been all that it might have been recently. Loved ones are suffering. Some with this thing, … More

I started a bit of a thing for Max Richter a while ago. Then gave up. Last autumn I came … More

Practice To weep unbidden, to wake at night in order to weep, to wait for the whisker on the face … More

Any Common Desolation can be enough to make you look upat the yellowed leaves of the apple tree, the fewthat … More

Another Loss to Stop For Against such cold and mercurial mornings, watch the wind whirl one leaf across … More